Creating e-books
How to write an e-book?
The question of creating an e-book care, as it turned
out, many readers school starts blogger.
It would seem, from a desire
to be creative? Quite simply, if you open a blog, the first building block in
the formation of creative around the target audience will be the creation of mailing. After all, the
readers of the mailing list will be the first readers of your E-zine - blog.
And immediately raises another
question: how to persuade Internet users to subscribe to your newsletter
exactly? The answer is simple: it is necessary to offer them some delicious
free in exchange for their email address. This will be a delicious free e-book created by you.
Step
by step it will look as follows:
Is determined with the theme
of the blog and the first thing doing - writing an e-book on this topic pages
15-20, trying to interest, intrigue your potential reader. This will not be a
particularly difficult for you because the theme you have chosen you are
interested in, and thus have gained some experience and knowledge that I will
not be ashamed to share with others.
Create a mailing list on the
same topic, register it, for example, on Just click, create a subscription page
where and puts his free e-book in exchange for the person's email address,
wished to download the book.
Leads newsletter for 1-2
months, and at the same time to create a blog for this list (in that order, and not vice versa). In this case, the
question: "Who will be the first readers of my blog?" Will disappear
by itself, since, first readers will become your subscribers.
Remark: This plan is ideal for
those who just decided to create a blog,
but still does not know where to start. If you already have a blog and then
only to gather around him a target audience and, consequently, increase
traffic, then act in the reverse order: first blog, then e-book and following
it - sending.
But, as you can see, free
e-book is an essential feature of any of these options, so let's not waste time
and start to create it.
Decide
with your audience
Do not rush to immediately
start writing the book, first determine for whom you write. Research your
target audience to make sure that your book will meet its needs. If you already
have a blog, please refer to its readers with a question about what they are
most concerned about what topics should be highlighted in more detail and
highlight in a separate publication, etc.
Decide
on the idea
Start with the basic idea that
you want to convey to your reader. Record this idea and try to imagine the
various aspects of its implementation. For example, you Realtor and would like
to write a book on how to sell an apartment on their own, without the help of a
real estate agency. In this case, your readers will want to know what the
advantage of selling your own apartment, which documents must be prepared for
sale, how to prepare an apartment for sale, you can do without a notary, etc.
That is, you will focus on the specifics of an independent apartment sale
without any help… After describing the range of issues you so weave a web of
concepts, which will form the basis of your book.
Encourage
assistants
It disproportionately you lighten
your work if you use software for storing, retrieving and synchronizing notes ever
note. On the specifics of working with it you can read here. Will be of great help to you and the program Mindjet Mind
Manager Professional, which is very convenient to plan work on a book or you
can use it for free analogue service Mindomo
On which register and start working right away.
Where
to start?
Create a mind map using
Mindjet Mind Manager. This is an excellent method of brainstorming, which
allows to control and keep track of their ideas. Write your topic in the middle
of the sheet and a radius around her write down ideas on the implementation of
this theme. As work on the book, you will easily control the entire process of
writing.
Do not worry about the name,
the sequence of presentation and other stylistic subtleties. You just have to
sit down and start writing. It is possible that you will start from the middle
of the book, or even at the end. Just remember, do not necessarily adhere to
any one method. To finish the job, use any method. When all chapters are
written, you can easily combine them into a single entity and, if necessary,
adjust something.
How
to work on a book?
Keep in mind that even the
shortest of writing a book takes time and it is important that the process of
writing it was continuous, so you need to allocate each day to work on the book
for a while. You can put a task to write a certain number of words. And it is
possible, calling upon the gadget every day to give the book a certain time. I
used for this purpose a small but very useful program to mighty which helps to
organize working time and significantly increase productivity without
compromising health.
Tip: do not get up from
your desk until you have completed what was planned according to plan, even if
it seems to you that you left the Muse obviously, because it does not
necessarily work today on this chapter, you can start writing or other work on
the already edited written chapters.
Editing
After work on the book is
finished, let it "otlezhitsya" a day or two, but in the meantime you
will have a rest, to look after her critically. First run through the chapters
or sections. Whether they meet the intention of the book and stand their
ground? Sometimes it happens that some head acquire more sense if it is in a
different place, but not where it was originally defined. Once you are
satisfied with the order of the chapters, start reading each chapter, editing
what you choose.
Tip: as well as writing,
editing, too, requires a certain expenditure of time. Proceed in the same way
as in the case of the writing process that is allocated to the editing time
every day, if there is no potentiality to do it in one day (the book a little
while - 15-25 pages).
Surely you have heard the
phrase that editing is the soul of removal. If because of some idea or phrase
breaks lose the meaning of written, do not hesitate to remove this sentence.
But if this information is important, though, and does not fit in this context,
drag it to the sidebar, so that later, several modified to include smoothly
into the text.
Add
details
If the content you are quite
satisfied, you can think about the details. For example, on how best to entitle
the book what to write in the introduction and which lines should be in prison.
In the Introduction, be sure
to inform readers about how this book will help solve their problems.
If no killer title does not
occur, the most win-win option will answer the question: "How do I ...?”
In our case it is: "How to sell an apartment on their own?”
If the book uses information
from other sources, put them on a link or enter in the
"Bibliography".
Included in the book section
of the copyright notice and conditions of use of the book.
Add
an image
In selecting the images for
the book should always be aware of copyright. The best way to avoid possible
problems is to use a free effluents.
One last tip:
create a folder in which to store all materials, anyway related to the work on
the book.
As you know, dear reader, all
what you have just read, only the outline of the work on the book, and the
subject is much deeper and bigger. But if you first begin to create its first
free, these tips, I hope, will be useful. When hand in the writing of free e-books,
you can think about creating a book that is not ashamed to sell. But that's
another story, which we will certainly be back.
In conclusion of this brief
excursion into the history of the creation of the e-book I want to appeal to
those of you who have a headache at the thought that it is necessary, finally,
develop a plan for its own mailing list, it must be somehow somewhere post ,
somehow advertise, and preferably also to capitalize on it. If this is the
case, the authors propose to use the services of the School blogger for the
creation and placement of your mailing list for email services. All the details
about this service can read here.
